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I'll be honest, looking at the comments, I'm kind of shocked at just how many people are into strangulation porn.
Most kinks I can see the appeal, even if it doesn't do it for me personally. Strangulation stuff, though, just looks overly-aggressive and rapey. I get some people might like how it feels, but as porn, the visuals don't present as consensual or fun.
Lotta goth girls about to be out of a job
Like how they outlawed any bdsm porn for a few years. People are just going to use VPNs. What a waste of time and money. The planet is burning, billionaires are killing and the government is banning kinky porn
I briefly dated a man who often choked me, despite me explicitly asking him not to every time. He thought it's harmless and said he saw it "on TV". He never asked permission either. For me, it was uncomfortable and scary. I approve of the ban. It's scary how chocking is normalized when it's potentially very dangerous for a partner.
I see what you mean. I've had partners who loved it. so it does have a place within consensual power games.
That said, seems like better education about consent and safety would be useful.
Choking kinks soar.
But they'll have to learn to do it right on their own because virtually all the porn is gone due to containing it. Since some newbies will inevitably accidentally go too far with it, suddenly manslaughter (if that's what it's called in the UK) cases soar as well.
Hey AI, choke me video please
I watched a YT video by Dr Angela Collier on Richard Feynman. She drops this incredibly alarming stat that if a partner chokes you, you are 750% more likely to be murdered by that partner. I get that the kink isn’t 1:1 but it does make me wonder if there’s any relation.
What does Feynman have to do with sexual choking? 😅
What are your chances of being murdered by your partner anyway? Just say if it's 0.1%, then that makes it 0.75%.
Maybe I'm not fully awake, but I don't understand how that stat could be calculated. How the hell would anyone know the kinks at play in a representative subset of all abusive relationship that have ended in murder?
As I mention in another reply the stat refers to abuse not kink play. Likely polled abuse/DV victims and then followed up with them, but that just a guess. I’ll link the study later if I can track it down.
Oh yeah non consensual choking is a "make a plan to get out now" situation.
In kink I'm actually still generally against it, but in a "this is way higher risk profile than a lot of people think" way. Banning it won't help, proper kink educational resources will.
They interview the murder victim.
A seance, you say? Choked to death, you say?
I feel like the context of whether it’s consensual or not is the real factor there. BUT a lot of the edgier kinks can become even more dangerous since people are uncomfortable talking/asking questions, so maybe it’s more complicated.
Oh yeah for sure, that stat is undoubtedly in the context of argument/non-consent; not a consensual kink dynamic. I wondered if it’s because they don’t want to normalise it due to worrying about it carrying over to circumstances outside consensual sex dynamics. Like an abuser trying to argue it being in a BDSM dynamic when it’s actually an abusive one.
If someone dies you're very unlikely that you're getting away with it even if you have firm evidence of consent such as it occurring in a freak accident at a well monitored event. At least that's what the kink educators I've heard from have all said.
Research shows strangulation is never a safe practice, despite a widespread belief it can be performed safely. Though it often leaves no visible injury, oxygen deprivation, even for very short moments, causes changes to the fragile structures of the brain.
Multiple studies have specifically shown brain changes in women who have been repeatedly “choked” during sex, including markers for brain damage and disruptions in brain hemispheres linked to depression and anxiety.
To be honest that actually seems like reason enough even if it is genuinely consensual
Way too many people try things they see in porn without doing proper research practice or consents. 50 shades of grey was a terrible time for the bdsm community